By Kemi Olatunde
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As part of its efforts to mitigate the effects of removal of fuel subsidy in the country, the Ondo State Government has said arrangements are in top gear to capture no fewer than 10,000 indigent families to benefit from free health insurance scheme.
The state Head of Service, Pastor Kayode Ogundele, FCIPM gave the hint while playing host to a delegation of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, PSN, Ondo State Branch in his office in Akure.
This, according to Ogundele, is in addition to about 40,000 other indigent families originally earmarked to benefit from the ORANGHIS Health Insurance Scheme.
He said all categories of the public servants at both in the state and local government levels across the state were already benefitting from the scheme.
The Head of Service, who reiterated the commitment of the present administration in the state to the total well-being of residents, said lots of measures have been put in place to improve the health sector for quality and affordable health care delivery in the state, adding that the government would not relent in its pursuit of healthy citizenry.
‘At the Palliative Committee, we are working seriously on ensuring that we bring at least 10,000 vulnerable families into the insurance scheme to be funded by the state government,’ he added.
‘And that is outside what we have been working on with ORANGHIS where about 40,000 will be brought in” Ogundele further disclosed.
Speaking earlier, the leader of the delegation and state chairman of PSN, Pharmacist Akindeko Robinson had lauded the Akeredolu-led administration for giving the health sector a pride of place in the scheme of things in the state.
He particularly appreciated the government for setting up the Ondo State Drug and Health Commodities Management Agency and allowing it to commence activities.
Akindeko however solicited for recruitment of more pharmacists in the state public health facilities and for proper placement of such personnel based on their experiences and extant scheme of service.
